Germans in the Civil War: The Letters They Wrote Home

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ABBREVIATIONS AB Adressbuch (German city directory) Batn Battalion Baty Battery Br. LHA P Brandenburgisches Landeshauptarchiv Potsdam Cav Cavalry CD City Directory Co. County Comp Company csa Confederate States of America DAB Dictionary of American Biography, edited by Allen Johnson and Dumas Malone, 20 vols. (New York, N.Y., 1927–36). Desc. Books Descriptive Books Div. Division e.d. enumeration district fl. guilder* (approximately 41 cents) GA Gemeindearchiv (Town Archives) GLA Ka Generallandesarchiv Karlsruhe HArt Heavy Artillery HPL Hamburg Passenger Lists Hs. StA Da Hessisches Staatsarchiv Darmstadt Ind. Baty Independent Battery Inf Infantry KB (ev., lu., rk.) Kirchenbuch (Parish Register) (Evangelical, Lutheran, Roman Catholic) LArt Light Artillery LHA Landeshauptarchiv (Central State Archives) ll. lines MC Manuscript Census MCA Manuscript Census, Agriculture MC MN Manuscript Census, Minnesota State Census, 1885, Minnesota Historical Society NABS Nordamerika-Briefsammlung, Gotha NatA U.S. National Archives, Washington, D.C. xviii Abbreviations NOPL New Orleans Passenger Lists Ns. StA Niedersächsisches Staatsarchiv NYPL New York Passenger Lists OAR Official Army Register of the Volunteer Force of the United States Army for the Years: 1861, ’62, ’63, ’64, ’65, edited by United States Adjutant General’s Office, 9 vols. (Washington, D.C., 1865; Gaithersburg, Md., 1987). OR The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, 128 vols. (Washington, D.C., 1880–1901). Pct. Precinct Regt. Regiment Regt. Books Regimental Books RG Record Group StA Staatsarchiv (State Archives) StateA State Archives StdA Stadtarchiv (City Archives) Subd. Subdivision (of city ward) Twp. Township USC U.S. Census, Population USC A U.S. Census, Agriculture USC M U.S. Census, Manufacturing Vol. Volunteers W. Ward WHMC Western Historical Manuscript Collection, Columbia, Missouri # sequential family number (in MC) ...